hibernate - java.lang.IllegalStateException: Could not locate SessionFactory in JNDI -

good evening, above exception when using hibernate jsf, saw many times in past , root cause <session-factory name="sessionfactory"> removed name , change generated code creating sessionfactory that:

protected sessionfactory getsessionfactory() {     try {         return (sessionfactory) new initialcontext()                 .lookup("sessionfactory");     } catch (exception e) {         log.error("could not locate sessionfactory in jndi", e);         throw new illegalstateexception(                 "could not locate sessionfactory in jndi");     } } 

to that:

protected sessionfactory getsessionfactory() {     try {         return new configuration().configure("hibernate.cfg.xml").buildsessionfactory();     } catch (exception e) {         log.error("could not locate sessionfactory in jndi", e);         throw new illegalstateexception(                 "could not locate sessionfactory in jndi");     } } 

it working fine me, time have no solution it, know problem resides?

the hibernate-cfg.xml

<hibernate-configuration> <session-factory>     <property name="hibernate.bytecode.use_reflection_optimizer">false</property>     <property name="hibernate.connection.driver_class">com.mysql.jdbc.driver</property>     <property name="hibernate.connection.password">root</property>     <property name="hibernate.connection.url">jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/guno</property>     <property name="hibernate.connection.username">root</property>     <property name="hibernate.dialect">org.hibernate.dialect.mysqldialect</property>     <property name="hibernate.search.autoregister_listeners">false</property> </session-factory> 

you manually add sessionfactory context. although looks lot of code these 5 lines. rest handeling namingexception initialcontext seems love throwing.

a better approach use contextlistener automatically add session during start up

initialcontext initialcontext = new initialcontext(); sessionfactory sf = (sessionfactory)  initialcontext.lookup("sessionfactory"); configuration cfg = new configuration(); cfg.configure(); sf = cfg.buildsessionfactory(); initialcontext.bind("sessionfactory", sf); 

here full servlet goget method

    protected void doget(httpservletrequest request,         httpservletresponse response) throws servletexception, ioexception {     account acc;     initialcontext initialcontext = null;     acc = new account("asdf" + string.valueof(new date().gettime()), "asdf");     accounthome home;     transaction tx = null;     sessionfactory sf;              // create instance of initialcontext             // can lookup sessionfactory property             // or add if not yet exist     try {          initialcontext = new initialcontext();      } catch (namingexception e) {         throw new servletexception("unable create initalcontext", e);     }              // since sessionfactories expensive create              // first attempt lookup cached instance of sessionfactory     try {         sf = (sessionfactory) initialcontext.lookup("sessionfactory");     } catch (namingexception e) {                     // there no session factory bound context                     // manually create , bind         configuration cfg;         cfg = new configuration();         cfg.configure();         sf = cfg.buildsessionfactory();          try {             initialcontext.bind("sessionfactory", sf);         } catch (namingexception e1) {             throw new servletexception(                     "unable bind sessionfactory inital context");         }     }              // start transaction , perform work     tx = sf.getcurrentsession().begintransaction();     try {         home = new accounthome();         home.persist(acc);         tx.commit();     } catch (exception e) {         tx.rollback();         throw new servletexception("work failed", e);     }  } 

edit: added contextlistener

package ch.yaawi.platform;  import javax.naming.initialcontext; import javax.naming.namingexception; import javax.servlet.servletcontextevent; import javax.servlet.servletcontextlistener;  import org.hibernate.sessionfactory; import org.hibernate.cfg.configuration;  public class sessionfactorylistener implements servletcontextlistener {  private sessionfactory msessionfactory;  public void contextdestroyed(servletcontextevent event) {      if (msessionfactory != null && !msessionfactory.isclosed()) {         msessionfactory.close();     }  }  public void contextinitialized(servletcontextevent event) {     initialcontext initialcontext = null;     try {          initialcontext = new initialcontext();      } catch (namingexception e) {         throw new runtimeexception("unable create initalcontext", e);     }      try {         msessionfactory = (sessionfactory) initialcontext                 .lookup("sessionfactory");     } catch (namingexception e) {         configuration cfg;         cfg = new configuration();         cfg.configure();         msessionfactory = cfg.buildsessionfactory();          try {             initialcontext.bind("sessionfactory", msessionfactory);         } catch (namingexception e1) {             throw new runtimeexception(                     "unable bind sessionfactory inital context");         }     }  }  } 

then in web.xml

<!doctype web-app public "-//sun microsystems, inc.//dtd web application 2.3//en" "http://java.sun.com/dtd/web-app_2_3.dtd" >  <web-app> <display-name>archetype created web application</display-name>  <listener>     <listener-class>ch.yaawi.platform.sessionfactorylistener</listener-class> </listener>  </web-app> 

of causing changing namespace own.

hope helps someone